A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for his role in the arson of the Target corporate headquarters in downtown Minneapolis during one of the 2020 riots, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger last week.

The riot that began in the late afternoon hours of Aug. 26, 2020, was spawned from false information spread in part by live streamers claiming that Minneapolis police had shot and killed a man in downtown Minneapolis.

Video released within an hour of the incident by the Minneapolis Police Department in an attempt to quell the rumors showed that the subject of the shooting, who was a homicide suspect being tracked by police, actually shot himself [graphic video] in a suicide death on the 800 block of Nicollet Mall.

Leroy Lemonte Perry Williams, now 37, was one of several people who subsequently engaged in activity that included arson, looting, burglaries, assaults on police, and property damage that continued through that evening in downtown and other areas of Minneapolis.